# The Bitcoin Group #481 - The Price - Blockstream Epstein - Crypto Bill - Crime Currency

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Podcast: [The World Crypto Network Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-crypto-network-podcast-1089033)
Published: 2026-02-09T18:00:02+00:00
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Is bitcoin back or does a dead cat bounce twice? Robert Allen (https://www.twitter.com/satoshisound) Ben Arc (https://www.twitter.com/arcbtc) Victoria Jones (https://www.twitter.com/satoshisound) Thomas Hunt ( https://www.twitter.com/madbitcoins) THIS WEEK: Crypto Takes a Deep Slide Despite Trump’s Support https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/technology/bitcoin-price-drop-crypto-market.html Source: NY Times Blockstream has no financial links to Jeffrey Epstein, Adam Back says https://www.theblock.co/post/387956/blockstream-jeffrey-epstein-adam-back Source: The Block EPSTEIN MET WITH NYDFS'S BEN LAWSKY DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF BITCOIN AND CRYPTO REGULATION, KNOWN AS THE BITLICENSE https://twitter.com/kyletorpey/status/2018429962173423780?s=46 Source: Twitter | @kyletorpey Interesting that @jason also used this framing in emails with his pal Epstein all the way back in 2011, warning Epstein that Amir and Gavin are "crazy open source folks" (idealists). Amir and Gavin ended up on different sides of the entrepreneur/idealist split though. https://twitter.com/kyletorpey/status/2018406237218451632?s=46 Source: Twitter | @kyletorpey Crypto bill talks picking up in Senate after clearing a key vote, Sen. Boozman says https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/boozman-crypto-cftc-regulation.html Source: CNBC —- This weekend, Andrej Karpathy, a founding architect of OpenAI and the brains behind Tesla’s Autopilot, posted something that stopped the tech world cold. https://twitter.com/_rob_wallace/status/2018339227956568379?s=46 Source: Twitter | @_rob_wallace Strategy’s long road to nowhere https://archive.is/20260202140136/https://www.ft.com/content/da5ec232-6435-4ff9-ae8f-759ccfc93bfe Source: Archive Bitcoin demand in Nancy Guthrie disappearance shows how crypto is becoming a more frequent…

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